The largest pork processor in the country, Rosderra Irish Meats has cited the impact of Brexit as a reason not to give staff their first pay increase in eight years.

PIG farmers supplying Rosderra have not yet reached a breakeven price, according to IFA.

A HUGE investment programme will create up to 120 new jobs at a pigmeat processing plant in Edenderry, Co Offaly and secures 250 others that were put at risk following a fire at the plant last year.

THE owners of the pigmeat business formerly owned by Glanbia must return a price increase to pig producers immediately, according to the Irish Farmers Association.